Package org.eclipse.jgit.transport.sshd.agent

Interface ConnectorFactory.ConnectorDescriptor

  • Enclosing interface:
    ConnectorFactory
    public static interface ConnectorFactory.ConnectorDescriptor
    ConnectorFactory.ConnectorDescriptors describe available Connectors a ConnectorFactory may provide.

    A ConnectorFactory may support connecting to different SSH agents. Agents are identified by name; a user can choose a specific agent for instance via the IdentityAgent setting in ~/.ssh/config.

    OpenSSH knows two built-in names: "none" for not using any agent, and "SSH_AUTH_SOCK" for using an agent that communicates over a Unix domain socket given by the value of environment variable SSH_AUTH_SOCK. Other agents can be specified in OpenSSH by specifying the socket file directly. (The "standard" OpenBSD OpenSSH knows only this communication mechanism.) "SSH_AUTH_SOCK" is also the default in OpenBSD OpenSSH if nothing is configured.

    A particular ConnectorFactory may support more communication mechanisms or different agents. For instance, a factory on Windows might support Pageant, Win32-OpenSSH, or even git bash ssh-agent, and might accept internal names like "pageant", "openssh", "SSH_AUTH_SOCK" in ConnectorFactory.create(String, File) to choose among them.

    The ConnectorFactory.ConnectorDescriptor interface and the ConnectorFactory.getSupportedConnectors() and ConnectorFactory.getDefaultConnector() methods provide a way for code using a ConnectorFactory to learn what the factory supports and thus implement some way by which a user can influence the default behavior if IdentityAgent is not set or ConnectorFactory.create(String, File) is called with identityAgent == null.

    • Method Detail

      • getIdentityAgent

        @NonNull
String getIdentityAgent()
        Retrieves the internal name of a supported Connector. The internal name is the one a user can specify for instance in the IdentityAgent setting in ~/.ssh/config to select the connector.
        Returns:
        the internal name; not empty

      • getDisplayName

        @NonNull
String getDisplayName()
        Retrieves a display name for a Connector, suitable for showing in a UI.
        Returns:
        the display name; properly localized and not empty